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I'm your biggest fan, California, I'm coming home

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.
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When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.
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I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.
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At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.
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Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.
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No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.
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The only thing I have to give to make you smile, to win you with, are all the mornings still to live.
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We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.
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My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.
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My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.
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A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found.
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They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.
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I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians.
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I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.
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Rolling Stone hates me. They must have an editorial policy to do me in for many years.
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Morgellons is constantly morphing. There are times when it's directly attacking the nervous system, as if you're being bitten by fleas and lice. It's all in the tissue and it's not a hallucination. It was eating me alive, sucking the juices out. I've been sick all my life.
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Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.
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Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.
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If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can
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I see bodies as individual things.
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